The Jewish National Fund’s latest “active recreation area,” which opened last month at En Zetim near Safed, was a focal point for outdoor holidaying during the Independence Day break last week. The area is the third of its type in Israel–all planned and executed by JNF. The other two are at Ben Shemen between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and in the hills of Menashe, north of Haifa.
Theodore Hatalgui of JNF’s Executive, the main speaker at the opening of the En Zetim area, said the site was the special project of Australian JNF. The active recreation includes various installations for climbing, jumping, acrobatics, vaulting, halspoing, and tests of strength. The sites also have picnic areas, sports fields, parking lots and sanitary facilities. They are all sections of larger JNF forests, landscaped into the wooded scenery.
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